[From the Lyttelton Times, June 14.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 615, 25 June 1851, Page 3

[From the Lyttelton Times, June 14. ]

A serious accident happened on board the Calliope, 26 guns, fitting at Devonport for the New Zealand station, on the 3rd of February. The vessel was being taken out of harbour into the Sound, in tow, by the Avon steamer. She was starting all well, when it appears the ship gained Way on the men working at the capstan, and on their walking back to give each hawser an equal strain, the capstan “ ran away,” carrying every one before it. The Commander, Sir Everard Home, Bart., was most seriously hurt in the head and also in one of his legs, and several of the petty officers and men were also injured. The ship was again placed at her moorings, and would not leave them until further orders. It is said that five deer (two bucks and three does) hati been captured on Mount Edgecumbe, and shipped on board the Calliope for breeding in New Zealand. The Stately, which sailed from Gravesend for New Zealand on Feb. 2, had on board 32 young females, sent out by means of the Female Emigration Fund. This makes a total of 520 to whom the means of emigration have been thus supplied, but is the first instance of New Zealand having been selected as the destination.